Heatherkong

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Hello

Hi Heather it's Keziah, thanks for introducing yourself on my talk page! Kezchow (talk) 16:43, 3 September 2020 (UTC)

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If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Ian (Wiki Ed) (talk) 17:22, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia

Copying within Wikipedia is totally fine; Everything is licensed for anyone to reuse for any purpose! But only under the condition that you credit the original author, so if you copy within Wikipedia, you need to note as much in the edit summary, where it was copied from, to give the original authors credit and so that any reusers can also do so. WilyD 12:40, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you for the help WilyD! I will make sure to credit the authors as I make those edits over the next few days. Thanks for looking through my article and helping me with corrections. Heatherkong (talk) 18:01, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi WillyD! Thanks for providing the link for me to look for which authors to credit. Since there are a lot of authors that worked on the sections that I copied over, do I need to go back and look through all of the history since the beginning of the article to credit everyone, or is it sufficient to provide a link to the revision history to credit the authors? Also, where should I be crediting them? Thank you!

In practice, linking the article and the article history is generally taken as sufficient for meeting the licence requirements. I typically do this in the edit summary. Something like "Some of this content was copied from User:WilyD, the original authors are listed at [1] ". WilyD 11:55, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Idea for an article

Hi Heather, I noticed you said you were from California, have you considered doing an article on Gentrification in Los Angeles?   // Timothy :: talk  18:44, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi Timothy! Thanks for the great suggestion. I would be happy to help out. Are you currently working on a page for that? Heatherkong (talk) 22:05, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

• Reply: Heatherkong, I haven't started anything, just was thinking about it, but you provided the idea :) I think you would be able to write a great article on this; I'm living the negative side of this, so I'm not sure how objective I could be. If you decide to do the article let me know, I will do the same. I may search through some journals and newspapers next week to see what I can find. Best wishes from Los Angeles.   // Timothy :: talk  08:32, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

• Reply: TimothyBlue Sounds good Timothy! I will let you know. Thanks!

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		Thanks for your thoughtful work! DStrassmann (talk) 19:04, 28 November 2020 (UTC)